5 July 2017
Why do the automated bus stop announcements (presumably based on GPS) on some London bus routes get their location quite wrong? I notice that buses passing Tottenham Court Road station, for example, sometimes announce that they are at the "Petersham,...
5 July 2017
Runners have long debated the difference between training on a treadmill and training on solid ground. "Belt turnover" is commonly cited as a factor that helps to move your foot backwards and thereby makes running on a treadmill easier than running on...
5 July 2017
In the spring, deciduous trees add huge amounts of foliage very quickly. How do they suddenly produce this? They must be drawing on stored material and energy, but where are these stores?
5 July 2017
While holidaying on the Greek island of Paxos, I came upon a pebble beach where many of the stones had apparently been "engraved" by some type of creature. This example (see photo above) is roughly 50 by 60 millimetres, but the same sort of pattern was...
5 July 2017
I went on holiday for two weeks and returned to find this ghostly impression of a spider on our toilet roll (see photo below), but no spider or spider body anywhere around. How did the spider cause this pattern?
5 July 2017
The most attractive toys on the market this year. Plus: driving through fudge, sending chicken to outer space, rebranding sparkling water and more
5 July 2017
Compiled by Richard Smith
5 July 2017
In 1665, Robert Hooke's Micrographia brought micrscopic observations of objects smaller than a grain of sand out of the laboratory and into the wider world
